The Land Before Time XV: The Sharp Beak Prince

by Mongoose Lover

Littlefoot has Chomper as a Sharptooth close friend, but Petrie has none. All that changes when Ptero comes. But Ptero is afraid of Leaf Eaters, falsely believing his father to have been killed by them. Ptero keeps his dietary nature a secret but Petrie eventually find out. Petrie agrees to keep it a secret, but what will they do when others find out? Will they accept him or not?

22. Chapter 21: Ptero and Cera

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: PTERO AND CERA

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Ptero came with Petrie in the morning to meet with the others. Both were still yawning from having just woken up. Ptero turned around so as not to let Petrie see that he had fangs, which he was sure Petrie would see if he had faced him, for he let out a big yawn. Luckily Petrie didn't think anything strange of his actions. They came to Cera first. Petrie was carrying some berries. Cera grabbed three of them.

"Cera, give that back!" Petrie grumbled.

"Why don't you come and get them?" asked Cera.

Petrie tried to grab them. Cera moved them out of the way.

"Hey!" he whined.

"You have to do better than that." said Cera.

Petrie tried again but Cera moved it out of the way just like Lucy did with the football and Charlie Brown. Cera did this over and over.

"Come on Petrie, try again." grinned Cera.

"Cera, let him have them back." grumbled Littlefoot, coming upon them and seeing what was going on.

"Can I try?" asked Ptero.

"Sure, go ahead." said Cera.

She hoped to outwit Ptero just like she had done with Petrie. She held the berries out. WHAM! Ptero grabbed them fast. He held them safely in his talons. "Got them." he said, grinning.

"Wow, you are good!' said Cera in amazement.

"You have great reflexes!" said Littlefoot in awe.

"Well, you may have the best reflexes of our gang, but I'm still the strongest." said Cera. She broke a rock with her head.

"Well, I cannot do that." said Ptero. "But I can do this." Ptero added. He went and flew at a tree branch. He aimed at it with full force. SMASH! It broke free. It was a big branch too. The branch fell and conked Cera in the head.

"Ow!" moaned Cera. Ducky laughed. Spike chuckled.

"Sorry, didn't mean to hit you." said Ptero.

"That's ok. You are pretty strong, for a non-Threehorn." Cera said.

Ptero sighed. He'd gotten these abilities from his mother's training. She had said it would be useful for taking down Flatteeth. He'd always been so eager to use it for such. But now, as he looked at his friends, for the first time since he was a small boy, he was doubting whether he'd now use those abilities for such if bidden.